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How Microsoft Sabotages GNU/Linux Adoption in Russian Schools

"There is another funny story. In Volgograd, Russia,
there were elections of a city mayor and a head of region. A
regional candidate deployed computers, network and Linux at
Volgograd schools, in accordance with a government program. He
proudly presented that as his own achievement. At the same time a
mayor candidate (from different elections) talked to Microsoft and
deployed Microsoft applications at the same schools. Microsoft
proudly reported that here. In short, Microsoft provided schools
with typical “academic” package. However, Microsoft
sent a “Windows Upgrade” disk instead of Windows
itself, which costs $7 per seat for schools. But you need to have
Windows already installed in order to use this (schools had
Linux)."